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This document provides information about sentence structure and includes an example text and exercises. It defines simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences based on the number of independent and dependent clauses. Sentences can be classified as simple if they contain one independent clause, compound if they contain two or more independent clauses, complex if they contain one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses, and compound-complex if they contain two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. The document then provides an excerpt from "The Fall of the House of Usher" and exercises asking the reader to identify sentence structures in the example text and modify simple sentences into more complex structures.

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LIT17 ANC G10U1 FallUsh LD

This document provides information about sentence structure and includes an example text and exercises. It defines simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences based on the number of independent and dependent clauses. Sentences can be classified as simple if they contain one independent clause, compound if they contain two or more independent clauses, complex if they contain one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses, and compound-complex if they contain two or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses. The document then provides an excerpt from "The Fall of the House of Usher" and exercises asking the reader to identify sentence structures in the example text and modify simple sentences into more complex structures.

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SENTENCE STRUCTURE

The Fall of the House of Usher


Edgar Allan Poe

Sentences can be classified by the number of independent and dependent clauses they
have. An independent clause has a subject and a verb and can stand by itself as a
complete sentence. A dependent, or subordinate, clause has both subject and verb but
cannot stand alone as a complete sentence. Words that mark dependent clauses include
after, although, as, as if, because, before, if, in order to, since, though, unless, until,
whatever, when, whenever, whether, and while.
This chart shows the four basic sentence structures.
Sentence Composed of Example

Simple 1 independent clause His ordinary manner had vanished.


Compound 2 (or more) independent His eyes were bent fixedly before him, and throughout
clauses his whole countenance there reigned a stony rigidity.
Complex 1 independent clause While he spoke, the lady Madeline (for so was she
and 1 (or more) called) passed slowly through a remote portion of the
dependent clauses apartment.

Compound- 2 (or more) independent And it might have been for this reason only, that, when I
complex clauses and 1 (or more) again uplifted my eyes to the house itself, from its image
dependent clauses in the pool, there grew in my mind a strange fancy.

A. DIRECTIONS: Underline each independent clause. Circle each dependent clause. Identify the
sentence as simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex.

1. Its proprietor, Roderick Usher, had been one of my boon companions in


boyhood; but many years had elapsed since our last meeting.
2. I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and
reason together.
3. If ever a mortal painted an idea, that mortal was Roderick Usher.
4. Having carefully shaded his lamp, he hurried to one of the casements and
threw it freely open to the storm.
B. DIRECTIONS: Add clauses to change these simple sentences into compound,
complex, or compound-complex sentences. Underline each independent clause and
circle each dependent clause. Identify your sentence as compound, complex, or
compound-complex.
1. There was a flash of lightning.

2. I ran to Usher.

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